A New Intelligent Hybrid Control Approach for DC-DC Converters in Zero-Emission Ferry Ships

Nowadays, sea traveling is increasing due to its practicality and low-cost. Ferry boats play a significant role in the marine tourism industry to transfer passengers and tourists. Nevertheless, traditional ferry ships consume massive amounts of fossil fuels to generate the required energy for their...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on power electronics 2020-06, Vol.35 (6), p.5832-5841
Main Authors: Khooban, Mohammad Hassan, Gheisarnejad, Meysam, Farsizadeh, Hamed, Masoudian, Ali, Boudjadar, Jalil
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boats
Converters
dc microgrid control
Distributed generation
Emissions
Energy management
Energy storage
Ferries
Fossil fuels
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
full-electric ferry
Fuzzy control
Fuzzy logic
Hybrid control
Hybrid systems
Mathematical model
power electronic converters
Power grids
Power system dynamics
Renewable energy sources
Ships
Sliding mode control
Storage systems
Tourism
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Summary:Nowadays, sea traveling is increasing due to its practicality and low-cost. Ferry boats play a significant role in the marine tourism industry to transfer passengers and tourists. Nevertheless, traditional ferry ships consume massive amounts of fossil fuels to generate the required energy for their motors and demanded loads. Also, by consuming fossil fuels, ferries spatter the atmosphere with CO2 emissions and detrimental particles. In order to address these issues, ferry-building industries try to utilize renewable energy sources (RESs) and energy storage systems (ESSs), instead of fossil fuels, to provide the required power in the ferry boats. In general, full-electric ferry (FEF) boats are a new concept to reduce the cost of fossil fuels and air emissions. Hence, FEF can be regarded as a kind of dc stand-alone microgrid with constant power loads (CPLs). This article proposes a new structure of a FEF ship based on RESs and ESSs. In order to solve the negative impedance induced instabilities in dc power electronic based RESs, a new intelligent single input interval type-2 fuzzy logic controller based on sliding mode control is proposed for the dc-dc converters feeding CLPs. The main feature of the suggested technique is that it is mode-free and regulates the plant without requiring the knowledge of converter dynamics. Finally, we conduct a dSPACE-based real-time experiment to examine the effectiveness of the proposed energy management system for FEF vessels.
ISSN:0885-8993
1941-0107
DOI:10.1109/TPEL.2019.2951183